Favorite quotes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one’s own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody’s else advice.

It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don’t, you only make matters worse.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.